Hi, sorry for replying rather late!
In response to 1): Thinking about it, I think the main (possible) problem is that my MTA is rejected by SMTP servers it connects to because of a Tor blacklist. Is this probable? Has someone got experience running a complete mail system and a (public) Tor relay on the same host/IP? About 2): That is indeed very unfortunate, but at the same time a reason to start contributing to Tor! (Sadly, I am presently occupied by various other projects, but I think Tor is definitely worth a 'visit'.) Now about something else. I recently had to restart my server for unrelated reasons. (The relay had the Guard and Stable flag at that time.) I sadly forgot to add the Tor service to the default runlevel, so it was not started at boot time. I went to bed thinking everything was OK and was only able to start Tor about 12 hours later. Unfortunately, my relay got no flags since then -- not even "Running"! The Tor consensus website confirms this: Three Auths voted for all previous/normal flags except Guard, the others only for Valid and V2Dir leading to my relay getting no flags! I cannot really explain this to myself. What is going on here? Tobias On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 07:32:17PM +0100, Moritz Bartl wrote: > On 03/02/2014 04:06 PM, Tobias Markus wrote: > > I've been running a new tor relay for about a week now > > Great. Thank you! > > > 1) I plan on running other services than tor on my server, including a > > (private) mail system. Other than the general possibility of tor having > > security holes and my server (and its IP address) being public and thus > > possibly target of attacks, are there security implications I should > > consider? > > Unfortunately, many sites block Tor relay IPs regardless of their exit > policy. So, if you share one IP between the relay and other services, > your might be impacted. This is especially true for exit relays. > > > 2) I would be interested to eventually run a directory/bandwith > > authority, so I read about them in [1] and [2], but the places seemed a > > bit odd (hidserv-perf branch in tor svn/torflow repo) so I thought I > > better ask here: Would I really just have to follow the steps in [1] > > to become a dirauth? Is there currently a need for auths, would > > contribution be welcomed? > > The offer is well appreciated. In the current design, directory > authorities and bandwidth authorities play a very special role. There > are several ideas on how to improve the situation and then open > participation to the broader community, but for the time being, > authorities can only be run by people very close to the core dev team. _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
